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MediaWiki 1.4beta4 is an experimental release, to help flush out remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0 release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help diagnose and fix problems that come up.

Users of the earlier beta releases should upgrade to keep up with bug fixes. Anyone running a version _earlier_ than beta 3 should upgrade immediately if uploads are enabled due to potential security vulnerabilities on some Apache configurations.

=== Beta 4 fixes ===

* (bug 1090) Fix sitesupport links in CB/classic skins * Gracefully ignore non-legal titles in a <gallery> * Fix message page caching behavior when $wgCapitalLinks is turned off after installation and the wiki is subsequently upgraded * Database error messages include the database server name/address * Paging support for large categories * Fix image page scaling when thumbnail generation is disabled * Select the content language in prefs when bogus interface language is set * Fix interwiki links in edit comments * Fix crash on banned user visit * Avoid PHP warning messages when thumbnail not generated * (bug 1157) List unblocks correctly in Special:Log * Fix fatal errors in LanguageLi.php * Undo overly bright, difficult to read colors in Cologne Blue * (bug 1162) fix five-tilde date inserter * Add raw signatures option for those who simply must have cute sigs * (bug 1164) Let wikitext be used in Loginprompt and Loginend messages * Add the dreaded <span> to the HTML whitelist * (bug 1170) Fix Russian linktrail * (bug 1168) Missing text on the bureaucrat log * (bug 1180) Fix Makesysop on shared-user-table sites * (bug 1178) Fix previous diff link when using 'oldid=0' * (bug 1173) Stop blocked accounts from reverting/deleting images * Keep generated stylesheets cache-separated for each user * (bug 1175) Fix "preview on first edit" mode * Fix revert bug caused by bug 1175 fix * Fix CSS classes on minor, new, unpatrolled markers in enhanced RC * Set MySQL 4 boolean search back to 'and' mode by default * (bug 1193) Fix move-only page protection mode * Fix zhtable Makefile to include the traditional manual table * Add memcache timeout for the zh conversion tables * Allow user customization of the zh conversion tables through Mediawiki:zhconversiontable * Add zh-min-man (back) to language names list * Ported $wgCopyrightIcon setting from REL1_3A * (bug 1218) Show the original image on image pages if the thumbnail would be bigger than the original image * (bug 1213) i18n of Special:Log labels * (bug 1013) Fix jbo, minnan in language names list * Added magic word MAG_NOTITLECONVERT to indicate that the title of the page do not need to be converted. Useful in zh: * (bug 1224) Use proper date messages for date reformatter * (bug 1241) Don't show 'cont.' for first entry of the category list * (bug 1240) Special:Preferences was broken in Slovenian locale when $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled * Added magic word MAG_NOCONTENTCONVERT to supress the conversion of the content of an article. Useful in zh: * write-lock for updating the zh conversion tables in memcache * recursively parse subpages of MediaWiki:Zhconversiontable * (bug 1144) Fix export for fy language * make removal of an entry from zhconversiontable work * (bug 752) Don't insert newline in link title for url with %0a * Fix missing search box contents in MonoBook skin * Add option to forward search directly to an external URL (eg google) * Correctly highlight the fallback language variant when the selected variant is disabled. Used in zh: only for now.

Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=295298

Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta4.tar.gz?download

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Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

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- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)